The United States Department of the Interior, The National Park Service (NPS), and Great Smoky Mountain National Park, is announcing a notice of intent to award a cooperative agreement; this IS NOT A REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS. This funding opportunity is to provide public notice of NPS's intention to fund the following project activities WITHOUT full and open competition, under Cooperative Agreement P18AC00441, with The University of Tennessee, for a project titled; Characterizing Response of Soil and Stream Chemistry from the Chimney Tops 2 Fire.

Agency Code:

DOI-NPS

Agency Name:

Department of the InteriorNational Park Service

Posted Date:

Aug 22, 2018

Close Date:

Aug 31, 2018

Last Updated Date:

Aug 22, 2018

Award Ceiling:

$56,924

Award Floor:

$1

Estimated Total Program Funding:

$0

Expected Number of Awards:

0

Description:

Soil and trees within Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GRSM) play a significant role in the uptake and processing of acidic components deposited upon the landscape. The Chimney Tops 2 (CT2) fire burned 11,000 acres of park property, including many trees and groundcover, which are no longer present in the ecosystem. The effects of such fires on the soils and nearby stream chemistry are relatively unknown within GRSM. The purposes of this effort are to document the changes in soil and stream chemistry observed in various burn severities due to the Chimney Tops 2 fire.